TROY – Lori Blaker, CEO of TTi Global, will keynote the second annual Entrepreneur-YOU women’s entrepreneur conference February 13 at Walsh College’s Troy campus. Entrepreneur-YOU is designed to provide highly supportive resources for any woman who has a passion for growing or starting any type of business.
“At Entrepreneur-YOU, women entrepreneurs will find the guidance and support they need to start elevating their aspirations into reality,” said Walsh College President and CEO Stephanie Bergeron . “This remarkable day of education and resources will help entrepreneurs define, fund and grow their business?with advice from successful women.”
Tickets are $40 each and can be purchased online
The program was initiated in 2012 through the collaboration of successful local businesswomen seeking to help the large number of women in Southeast Michigan who have significant, unleashed entrepreneurial talent and the potential to positively impact and reshape the region’s economic landscape. Event collaborators include Huntington Bank, Inforum, Michigan Women’s Foundation and Walsh College.
The day-long conference offers four tracks with work sessions and panels to assist participants at every stage of entrepreneurship. The knowledge paths range from Novice to Practitioner, Achiever and Competitor.
Blaker has led her company to rank among the top 25 women-run businesses in the United States, and she has earned honors that include Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Enterprising Women magazine’s “Enterprising Women of the Year Award” and Leadership Oakland’s “Leader of Leaders” award. Recently she was part of the first-ever U.S. Department of Commerce trade mission to Afghanistan.
For more information and to register for Entrepreneur-YOU 2013, Click on TheWalshInstitute.Com/eyou
